As shown in the previous article Kapruka.com’s Sinhala ChatGPT (at https://www.kapruka.com/tools/chatgpt_sinhala.jsp) performs better in Sinhala language conversational processing in comparison to OpenAI ChatGPT’s Sinhala language processing (naturally!).
More prompts were issued in the Sinhala language to understand how far Kapruka.com’s ChatGPT could take the conversations on its own.
In the previous “tests”, Kapruka responded to prompts designed to measure theoretical ideas -and it appeared to do reasonably well. It handled dialogues about various concepts (though somewhat artificially), which could help it to play the role of a school teacher. At present, Kapruka may not be able to ‘’çover’’ a school syllabus in the[1] Sinhala language fully, but some “test-[2] prompts” showed it could well be a useful learning aid to local Sinhala language students.
Can it help Sinhala language students with[3] their homework?
Prompt in Sinhala: “What are the carnivorous plants seen in Sri Lanka?
Response: “”[4] Sri Lanka has around 17 carnivorous plant varieties. They include Nepenthes, Drosera, Utricularia and Dionaea..”
Fact Check: Mostly correct.
Let’s run some basic mathematical equations in the Sinhala language…
“Multiply twenty-five by three hundred. Find the square root of the answer received.”
(In the prompt, the numbers were written in Sinhala words and no digits were shown to Kapruka).
The response: “The square root of 9750 is 98.77”
(Fact check: 25×300 is 9750, and this was the correct answer also given by Kapruka, and the square root of 9750 is 98.77, which was also correct).
I extended the prompt…
“Multiply twenty-[5] five by three hundred. Find the square root of the answer received. Deduct 100 from the answer returned.”
(Fact check: 25×300 is 9750,[6] and was the correct answer also given by Kapruka, and the square root of 9750 is 98.77, which was also correct. Deducting 100 from 98.77 results in (negative) 1.23 (i.e -1.23), which was incorrect since the answer produced was -1.9 which despite being incorrect, was still close).
The prompt: “Compare pH levels between a ripe guava and a mango.”
The response: “There is no significant difference. Guavas are a little more acidic at 3.9 pH while mangoes are less acidic with 3.7 pH.”
The prompt: “What are the nutrients in a ripe sour plantain [7] / [8] banana?”
The response: “A ripe sour banana contains Vitamins A, C and E, potassium, magnesium, fiber[9] and many other nutrients.”
The prompt: “Who is Martin Wickremesinghe?”
The response: “Martin Wickremesinghe was a Sri Lankan writer of “[book name missing] the first novel to be written in the Sinhala language and a professor of history. He was born in 1890 and died in 1976.”
Fact check: Martin Wickremesinghe’s year of birth and death were correct but he was not the writer of the first novel to appear in the Sinhala language. The first novel was said to be written by A.[10] Simon De Silva and was “Meena”.
